Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because the climbers health is at risk. The textbook Geography Alive! Regions and People is a textbook that talks about different regions and stories about people. On page 242 of the textbook Geography Alive! Regions and People the author states, “ lack of oxygen puts the climber's body in stress with little oxygen reaching their brains.” This illustrates that when you are climbing on a high elevation with little oxygen you can die of brain damage due to there not being enough oxygen going to your brain. The book Peak talks about a boy named Peak and how he tries to climb Mount Everest. The author in Peak describes aftereffects of sickness you can catch, “because we can't exercise and can't keep food down we're losing our conditioning (pg.188).” This illustrates that when you go climbing and you catch a bug, you can get really sick and can have bad aftereffects, which is not good for the health of the climber. …show more content…
On page 422 of the textbook Geography Alive! Regions and People the author states, “Climbers who don’t acclimatize successfully may begin exhibition symptoms of altitude sickness.” This comes to show that any time during the climb when you don't acclimatize you can get really sick and die. The author in Peak describes “ the boulder Jack hoped would fall did along with a ton of other debris (pg. 115)”. This illustrates that it’s anywhere you are on the mountain because there can be a lot of debris falling on top of people and can be